Chou Hung, Ph.D.
MIT, BCS Dept., McGovern Inst.
E25-242
45 Carleton St.
Cambridge, MA 02139

chouhung at yahoo
Office: 617-324-0306
Fax: 617-253-2964

Research Summary

Many of the same brain areas that are active when we view the world are also active when we imagine it in our minds. The activity in these areas are highly spatially organized, with discrete compartments ('cortical columns') for processing specific aspects of the image. I'm interested in how the real and imagined images map onto the brain, and how we might decode such maps. In my graduate studies in Dr. Anna Roe's lab, I focused on how local columns in primary and second visual cortex interact in representing real and illusory brightness. As a postdoc at MIT, I'm continuing to examine the nature of neural activity underlying visual form perception.

Publications

Hung CP, Ramsden BM, Roe AW (2002) Weakly-Modulated Spike Trains: Significance, Precision, and Correction for Sample Size. J Neurophysiol. 87: 2542-2554. [abstract] [full text] [pdf]

Hung CP, Ramsden BM, Chen LM, Roe AW (2001) Building Surfaces from Borders in Areas 17 and 18 of the Cat. Vision Res., 41 (10-11): 1389-1407. [link]

Ramsden BM, Hung CP, Roe AW (2001) Real and Illusory Contour Processing in Area V1 of the Primate: a Cortical Balancing Act. Cereb. Cortex, 11(7): 648-665. [abstract] [full text] [pdf]

Vnek N, Ramsden BM, Hung CP, Goldman-Rakic PS, Roe AW (1999) Optical Imaging of Functional Domains in the Cortex of the Awake and Behaving Monkey. PNAS USA, 96: 4057-4060. [abstract] [full text] [pdf]

Tang L, Hung CP, Schuman EM (1998) A Role for the Cadherin Family of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation. Neuron, 20: 1165-1175. [abstract] [full text] [pdf]

Recent Conference Posters

Hung CP, Ramsden BM, Roe AW (2002) Optical Imaging and Single Unit Recording of Real and Illusory Brightness Response in V1 and V2 of the Macaque Monkey. Society for Neuroscience Conf. 456.5. [pdf] (1.5 Mb)

Hung CP, Ramsden BM, Roe AW (2001) Interactions Between Contrast Borders and Surfaces in Cat Areas 17 and 18 During Processing of Real and Cornsweet Brightness Stimuli. Society for Neuroscience Conf. 286.1. [jpg] (3.0 Mb)